First, there are plenty of places we send UAVs that we don't really want to send people. Despite what it seems like from an outside perspective, we try to minimize human casualties, especially our own. Downed pilots can be captured, used as a deterrent for other troops (either publicly or privately) and can provide a lot of information on CONOPS, technical details of aircraft, facilities and other plans. An unmanned aircraft can only provide information about itself if it is brought down. Some don't even provide that because they have failsafe self destruct methods in the event of losing control.
Furthermore, most UAVs aren't "fly-by-wire" from the ground during mission. Some use fly-by-wire for take-off and landing, but most operational UAVs are truly autonomous once they're off the ground. We have pilots for "backup" control and manual override, but generally that's not how they fly.
Again, they think it's "not like that. This is America." They fail to see the significance, of the quote you mention, which scares me even worse than the willingness to give up their rights in the first place.
"t paved the way for that showdown at the end of the movie where Ethan Hawke proves that the human spirit can overcome any genetic defect, which came across as really corny (and also untrue)."
While it was a bit contrived, it in no way said the human spirit can overcome a genetic defect. What it said was genetics don't predetermine ability or destiny. If you want something bad enough, you shouldn't let someone tell you you can't have it just because you don't "fit" whatever you're supposed to. There's a big difference between those two thought processes.
It also said that there are some things worth dying for, even dreams that are "impossible". (That's how he won the show-down with his brother after all...he was willing to die for it.)
Man I hope you're right, but I think it's going to take a lot longer and a whole lot more lost. I've had, in the last month, several people tell me they'll gladly give up their rights to "catch the bad guys". When I query who decides who the bad guys are they have no answer. That scares the hell out of me.
Being openly gay removes the possibility of blackmail. But if I were to say "I'm straight" and then an investigation shows that to not quite be true, there is a huge concern associated with that. That's the point of the investigation, to uncover things that might put the employee in a position of compromise.
Only required to report "foreign" relations to the chain of command. Anyone not a US citizen. For some of us working government projects that includes spouses, in-laws, and friends we have frequent contact with. Your point is 100% valid though.
I have no problem with a thorough background check and an annual re-cert, if you will, but going to the extreme serves no purpose.
Some people will crack after a divorce and some will sell secrets. You find these tendencies with a psych. exam, as normal spats with spouses or even sexual orientation cannot be correlated with the "evil doers".
Hate to disappoint you but that's what a normal "thorough background check and annual re-cert" (which happens every 5 years, not annually) entails.
As for finding "evil doers", those are impossible. The point of the background searches is to find people who may have secrets of their own they'd like to hide and are therefor compromisable such that they can be blackmailed more easily into selling secrets they wouldn't otherwise intend to sell because they are not "evil doers".
Welcome to the world of security clearances. NASA routinely works on things that have a sensitive nature, if for no other reason than "technology export concerns". Why is this even news?
Simple answer: "I like to keep my work life work-related and my private life private." People need to get some backbone and learn how to think for themselves and stand up for themselves.
If you fear "an enemy" in the workplace you've been watching too many soap operas.
Find a better job. Seriously. If you are "falling behind" because you're doing your job at your desk then you're doing something wrong. What company doesn't provide phones for people who aren't doing manual labor or face to face customer service?
Am I the only person who thinks it's a completely unnecessary waste of time in the first place? I used to have a friendster account (for all I know I still do but I haven't logged in for well over 2 years) and used that to keep track of two people. As it turned out, I talked to them more in person or on the phone than by reading their accounts.
I have a journal account on the other one...LiveJournal I think it's called. It's completely unrelated to my other online nicknames and none of them are associated with real information about me. I use that about once a month to bitch about something or just write my impressions of movies etc.
Does anyone honestly care whether or not their facebook account stays "useful"?
And what ever happened to having a spine and telling coworkers that you're not really friends, you're colleagues, and you like to keep the two separate?
On the other hand, I've always answered that question "Yes, I just need to learn how first."
That's the way I've tried to raise my daughter and so far, so good. She'll try anything she has an interest in and does a whole lot of things other kids her age won't even consider. She's 12 and already written a book, climbed mountains, paddled her own kayak, learned 2 languages (currently working on a third and fourth) and generally excels in school including math and science. She also has helped me build two kayaks, and repair the car. She is less interested in the computer as a possible job, and more as a tool since she wants to be a veterinarian or a doctor, and a writer, but she understands the basics of how the computer works. She's helped me take laptops apart and repair them, but it's not really her favorite activity.
As another poster suggested, innate intelligence is a leg up but teaching children that learning is a process that requires work and effort is far more helpful.
Not to rain on your parade, but the price of oil has only increased since the start of the Iraq war, with a short period of decline where it dropped significantly but not to the price it was before the war in Iraq. In March 2003 Oil was trading at $35/barrel. It is currently hovering around the $85/barrel mark with forays closer to $100/barrel.
The war destabilized oil prices, and until we get out of there, they won't remain stable for any long periods.
I agree though, the chances of the earth being hit by a significant asteroid are ridiculously low and to say we should fund Arecibo for that purpose, is just noise. There are plenty of good reasons to keep funding sites like this, but using fear of uncertain doom is childish.
You say this like you expect the public reaction to be rational. One death in a LiIon fire and the batteries will be banned.
Yes, because exploding computers have been so effective at that. If someone dies, there will be recalls, and redesigns, nothing more. 10 years ago, I'd have said you were correct, but now the world wants this technology. Joe Public wants this technology. As a result, a few deaths won't make any difference to it coming to market.
I'm not really familiar with the SDKs since I'm not a coder, but I don't believe this is the way the OS X/aqua/whatever is appropriate SDK works so why would the iPhone SDK work that way?
I mean, the point of releasing the SDK is specifically so people can create software they want, within Apple's current framework. Obviously they're not going to provide tools that allow you to break current functionality limits or cause contract concerns with AT&T, but why would adding mame or IM be any kind of issue?
Excellent response. It just seemed odd to me that it sounded like you had no other reason. I suppose I could have rightly suspected the open-initiative thing if I had bothered to consider it carefully.
I have to agree with that, and I'm interested to see what happens, despite the fact that I'm not very likely to buy one of these phones any time soon.
Yes GSM isn't necessarily as heavily adopted everywhere as it is in Europe, but it is most definitely more widespread than anything else. Despite what Japan and Korea do, the rest of Asia uses GSM fairly consistently. At least China (#1 GSM market worldwide), Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, and Thailand. India also has a growing GSM market.
CDMA may well be a technology that is chosen as it is growing more rapidly than GSM due to 3G application apparently, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. People like the ability to move around the globe and use local providers, and right now GSM is the only way to do that I know about but I'm not up on the latest mobile technologies, admittedly, so there may be some other technology that allows that easily.
"You misinterpret the iPhone's initial market if you think it is suitable for business (it isn't), for instant messaging (it doesn't have that feature), or social networking (unless you want to use the built in Safari web browser)." Which is why the GP said (bold emphasis mine): "I mean seriously you can't use the iPhone for business, you can't use it to omgkfcbbq Instantmessage your friends. You can't use it for social networking."
Other than that, I agree with you completely. Google will make an OS that will provide programmers the capability to do everything the iPhone should do. But with the SDK out now (or soon) for the iPhone, I expect we'll see a lot more functionality for the iPhone long before the google phone ever hits the market.
I, on the other hand, didn't want an iPhone and do want a gPhone.
My question would be why do you want something you haven't even seen yet? For all we know the thing will be a monstrosity that doesn't work well anywhere. Are you simply saying you want one because it's Google or is there reason, other than a different form of fanboyism?
I'm not saying there's something wrong with supporting a company you like, just wondering whether there's some justification for your statement other than liking said company.
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Seriously, from that many failed brands I'd suggest it's your method of use that has a problem, not the hardware.
I've had about 6 different laptops (several simultaneously) over the last 10 years, the latest one I've had for about 3 years, and I have no problems with it heating up ever.
My current computer is an iBook, but I've had IBMs Dells, and HPs.
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First, there are plenty of places we send UAVs that we don't really want to send people. Despite what it seems like from an outside perspective, we try to minimize human casualties, especially our own. Downed pilots can be captured, used as a deterrent for other troops (either publicly or privately) and can provide a lot of information on CONOPS, technical details of aircraft, facilities and other plans. An unmanned aircraft can only provide information about itself if it is brought down. Some don't even provide that because they have failsafe self destruct methods in the event of losing control.
Furthermore, most UAVs aren't "fly-by-wire" from the ground during mission. Some use fly-by-wire for take-off and landing, but most operational UAVs are truly autonomous once they're off the ground. We have pilots for "backup" control and manual override, but generally that's not how they fly.
Welcome to the new military.
Again, they think it's "not like that. This is America." They fail to see the significance, of the quote you mention, which scares me even worse than the willingness to give up their rights in the first place.
Well that makes me feel better. I'll just rush right out and submit DNA results to all future employers and tell the doctors insurance is a scam.
"t paved the way for that showdown at the end of the movie where Ethan Hawke proves that the human spirit can overcome any genetic defect, which came across as really corny (and also untrue)."
While it was a bit contrived, it in no way said the human spirit can overcome a genetic defect. What it said was genetics don't predetermine ability or destiny. If you want something bad enough, you shouldn't let someone tell you you can't have it just because you don't "fit" whatever you're supposed to. There's a big difference between those two thought processes.
It also said that there are some things worth dying for, even dreams that are "impossible". (That's how he won the show-down with his brother after all...he was willing to die for it.)
"Figuratively speaking of course. Violence has never been the way to secure your freedom from a corrupt government."
Tell that to the people of the Boston Tea Party, or Lexington, or Bunker Hill, or any other famous battle of the Revolutionary War.
Of course it could be said that we simply secured our freedom from one corrupt government by installing another. But that's a whole other argument.
Man I hope you're right, but I think it's going to take a lot longer and a whole lot more lost. I've had, in the last month, several people tell me they'll gladly give up their rights to "catch the bad guys". When I query who decides who the bad guys are they have no answer. That scares the hell out of me.
You know that was Ethan Hawke, not Tom Cruise, right? Good movie, I just watched it again the other day.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
Being openly gay removes the possibility of blackmail. But if I were to say "I'm straight" and then an investigation shows that to not quite be true, there is a huge concern associated with that. That's the point of the investigation, to uncover things that might put the employee in a position of compromise.
Only required to report "foreign" relations to the chain of command. Anyone not a US citizen. For some of us working government projects that includes spouses, in-laws, and friends we have frequent contact with. Your point is 100% valid though.
I have no problem with a thorough background check and an annual re-cert, if you will, but going to the extreme serves no purpose.
Some people will crack after a divorce and some will sell secrets. You find these tendencies with a psych. exam, as normal spats with spouses or even sexual orientation cannot be correlated with the "evil doers".
Hate to disappoint you but that's what a normal "thorough background check and annual re-cert" (which happens every 5 years, not annually) entails.
As for finding "evil doers", those are impossible. The point of the background searches is to find people who may have secrets of their own they'd like to hide and are therefor compromisable such that they can be blackmailed more easily into selling secrets they wouldn't otherwise intend to sell because they are not "evil doers".
Yet Another reason why I left the Empire.
Whatever, Luke. You know he's your father right?
Welcome to the world of security clearances. NASA routinely works on things that have a sensitive nature, if for no other reason than "technology export concerns". Why is this even news?
Simple answer: "I like to keep my work life work-related and my private life private." People need to get some backbone and learn how to think for themselves and stand up for themselves.
If you fear "an enemy" in the workplace you've been watching too many soap operas.
Find a better job. Seriously. If you are "falling behind" because you're doing your job at your desk then you're doing something wrong. What company doesn't provide phones for people who aren't doing manual labor or face to face customer service?
Am I the only person who thinks it's a completely unnecessary waste of time in the first place? I used to have a friendster account (for all I know I still do but I haven't logged in for well over 2 years) and used that to keep track of two people. As it turned out, I talked to them more in person or on the phone than by reading their accounts.
I have a journal account on the other one...LiveJournal I think it's called. It's completely unrelated to my other online nicknames and none of them are associated with real information about me. I use that about once a month to bitch about something or just write my impressions of movies etc.
Does anyone honestly care whether or not their facebook account stays "useful"?
And what ever happened to having a spine and telling coworkers that you're not really friends, you're colleagues, and you like to keep the two separate?
On the other hand, I've always answered that question "Yes, I just need to learn how first."
That's the way I've tried to raise my daughter and so far, so good. She'll try anything she has an interest in and does a whole lot of things other kids her age won't even consider. She's 12 and already written a book, climbed mountains, paddled her own kayak, learned 2 languages (currently working on a third and fourth) and generally excels in school including math and science. She also has helped me build two kayaks, and repair the car. She is less interested in the computer as a possible job, and more as a tool since she wants to be a veterinarian or a doctor, and a writer, but she understands the basics of how the computer works. She's helped me take laptops apart and repair them, but it's not really her favorite activity.
As another poster suggested, innate intelligence is a leg up but teaching children that learning is a process that requires work and effort is far more helpful.
Come on, this is Slashdot. We know you've seen Transformers. Don't try to deny it.
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0418279/Ss/0418279/T14446EDIT.jpg.html?path=gallery&path_key=0418279
Not to rain on your parade, but the price of oil has only increased since the start of the Iraq war, with a short period of decline where it dropped significantly but not to the price it was before the war in Iraq. In March 2003 Oil was trading at $35/barrel. It is currently hovering around the $85/barrel mark with forays closer to $100/barrel.
The war destabilized oil prices, and until we get out of there, they won't remain stable for any long periods.
I agree though, the chances of the earth being hit by a significant asteroid are ridiculously low and to say we should fund Arecibo for that purpose, is just noise. There are plenty of good reasons to keep funding sites like this, but using fear of uncertain doom is childish.
You say this like you expect the public reaction to be rational. One death in a LiIon fire and the batteries will be banned.
Yes, because exploding computers have been so effective at that. If someone dies, there will be recalls, and redesigns, nothing more. 10 years ago, I'd have said you were correct, but now the world wants this technology. Joe Public wants this technology. As a result, a few deaths won't make any difference to it coming to market.
I'm not really familiar with the SDKs since I'm not a coder, but I don't believe this is the way the OS X/aqua/whatever is appropriate SDK works so why would the iPhone SDK work that way?
I mean, the point of releasing the SDK is specifically so people can create software they want, within Apple's current framework. Obviously they're not going to provide tools that allow you to break current functionality limits or cause contract concerns with AT&T, but why would adding mame or IM be any kind of issue?
Excellent response. It just seemed odd to me that it sounded like you had no other reason. I suppose I could have rightly suspected the open-initiative thing if I had bothered to consider it carefully.
I have to agree with that, and I'm interested to see what happens, despite the fact that I'm not very likely to buy one of these phones any time soon.
Yes GSM isn't necessarily as heavily adopted everywhere as it is in Europe, but it is most definitely more widespread than anything else. Despite what Japan and Korea do, the rest of Asia uses GSM fairly consistently. At least China (#1 GSM market worldwide), Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, and Thailand. India also has a growing GSM market.
CDMA may well be a technology that is chosen as it is growing more rapidly than GSM due to 3G application apparently, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. People like the ability to move around the globe and use local providers, and right now GSM is the only way to do that I know about but I'm not up on the latest mobile technologies, admittedly, so there may be some other technology that allows that easily.
http://www.cellular.co.za/news_2002/120302-cdma_now_has_159m_users_worldwid.htm
"You misinterpret the iPhone's initial market if you think it is suitable for business (it isn't), for instant messaging (it doesn't have that feature), or social networking (unless you want to use the built in Safari web browser)."
Which is why the GP said (bold emphasis mine): "I mean seriously you can't use the iPhone for business, you can't use it to omgkfcbbq Instantmessage your friends. You can't use it for social networking."
Other than that, I agree with you completely. Google will make an OS that will provide programmers the capability to do everything the iPhone should do. But with the SDK out now (or soon) for the iPhone, I expect we'll see a lot more functionality for the iPhone long before the google phone ever hits the market.
I, on the other hand, didn't want an iPhone and do want a gPhone.
My question would be why do you want something you haven't even seen yet? For all we know the thing will be a monstrosity that doesn't work well anywhere. Are you simply saying you want one because it's Google or is there reason, other than a different form of fanboyism?
I'm not saying there's something wrong with supporting a company you like, just wondering whether there's some justification for your statement other than liking said company.
Seriously, from that many failed brands I'd suggest it's your method of use that has a problem, not the hardware.
I've had about 6 different laptops (several simultaneously) over the last 10 years, the latest one I've had for about 3 years, and I have no problems with it heating up ever.
My current computer is an iBook, but I've had IBMs Dells, and HPs.